AI labs vs SaaS

Cursor and OpenAI against Snowflake and Datadog. Same SWE seat.

AI labs leads at $506k typical.

10–9025–75median

AI labs$506k
$375k–$638k mid · 6 seats
SaaS$274k
$250k–$295k mid · 8 seats

Seats on this cut

CursorAI labs$850k
OpenAIAI labs$653k
AnthropicAI labs$591k
xAIAI labs$420k
PerplexityAI labs$360k
Scale AIAI labs$340k
DatabricksSaaS$340k
SnowflakeSaaS$308k
DatadogSaaS$290k
VercelSaaS$280k
CloudflareSaaS$268k
AtlassianSaaS$250k
WorkdaySaaS$249k
GitLabSaaS$230k

Same scale. Public composites plus work-email ticks when they land. Method